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New York on that train. No one excepting Reading, Wiseman, the President and
myself really know<del>s</del> what Reading's mission to this country is.
Walter Lippman was with me for an hour. He was pleased at the tentative
choice of him to help in the peace conference work. I outlined the plan and he
was a sympathetic listener.
General H. P. Davison of the Red Cross and Mr. Hutchins of the National
Bank of Commerce, who is recently from Russia, spent an hour telling of conditions
there, and what was being done to better them. Hutchings believes that Ambassa-
dor Francis has taken unto himself a German spy-- a woman by the name of Madame de
Cram. He told of what Thompson of the Red Cross and others were trying to do
by way of helping Kerensky meet German propaganda. He asked me to see the
Swedish Commissioner Launbaum (?), whom he considers the <add>financially</add> most important man in
Sweden. I am to let him know whether I think it advisable to see him.
Justice Brandeis telephoned from Washington asking for an appointment to-
morrow. And this reminds me that Brandeis is carrying on a correspondence by
cable with the English Jews on the subject of the Zionist Movement. All these
cables come through Wiseman, though Brandeis does not know it. He believes they
come through Willert of the London Times.
I have not covered half the happenings or conversations of the past week
or ten days, for it has been impossible to find time to do so. Enough has hap-
pened to fill a book.
Paderewski asked for an appointment to pick up the threads of Polish pro-
blems. They are seeking to establish a provisional government in Poland which
they desire this country to recognize. Paderewski is so extravagant in his grat-
itude and praise of me that I am always embarrassed. If he were less naive and
childlike I would be suspicious of him. He speaks of me as having been sent by
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